Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:37:50PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:

> Umm... OK, the last argument is convincing. Thanks...
> 
> BTW, what was the reason behind doing preallocation for directories on
> ext2_bread() level? We both buy ourselves an oddity in directory structure
> (preallocated blocks become refered from the inode immediately and they
> are beyond i_size) and get more complicated ext2_alloc_block(). What do
> we win here?

Having preallocated blocks allocated immediately is deliberate:
directories grow slowly and remain closed most of the time, so the
normal preallocation regime of only preallocating open files and
discarding preallocation on close just doesn't work.

--Stephen
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